Wild Thoughts

I hate thinking I'm falling into a stream of thought that follows a pattern that may well be valid, but may certainly be just a product of several thousand generations of evolutionary training to look for those patterns, and to assume they're the real deal.

Here's a story of the Chaco Canyon civilization which concludes that high-handed theocratic rulers will become literal cannibals in order to impose their will on the people they rule.

And also maybe too - the leaders ate people thinking they could absorb the essence of their victims so they can extend their own lives as well as the power they hold over their subjects. (Nothing new about that, BTW)

At the end of this piece, try not to think about the grisly possibility that American plutocrats may actually have butchered young children, and eaten parts of them, or used parts of them to concoct some stupidly contrived tonic - or serum - or some goddamned thing.